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by avianlyric 10mo ago
That’s probably related to transactions large enough to warrant immediate settlement via a US federal reserve bank. Given US federal reserve banks sit at the heart of US dollar transactions (pretty much by definition, they’re the only entit
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Doesn’t really matter does it? Belgium was a founding member of the EU, and still strongly supports it. There’s a reason why Belgium has been at the centre of the debate around frozen Russian assets, if they really didn’t care, they would j
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
And my point is that V1 technology for credit cards happened in the 1950s, V2 in the 1970s and by the time chip and pin came around, credit cards were hardly new technology anywhere in the western world. Claiming that the US had too large o
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> Americans are not used to the pin concept. Nobody was. That's what happens when something new is invented, nobody is familiar with it until they're educated. Nobody in Europe were not used to the pin concept when Chip & P
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
No the US stuck with signature for profit and cultural reasons. Europe also had a huge install of mag stripe equipment, and has the same fraud systems, what else do you think Europe was using before EMV was developed? But Chip-and-PIN makes
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> Device manufacturers could pay Apple to register their devices to be recognized by the iPhone that they know how to use the advanced features it is capable of, for example. Maybe if Apple actually offered that at a reasonable price, an
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Last I checked Belgium was a member of the EU. Heck Brussels, generally considered the de-facto “capital” of the EU, is in Belgium. It’s pretty hard to get more hardcore EU than Belgium.
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
That is not how SWIFT works at all. SWIFT is basically a peer to peer financial network between banks. Any bank can send any amount of money to any other bank, without any kind of approval from the US, provided they have an appropriate comm
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> See thats why one needs a sovereign financial and banking system. You mean a sovereign financial and banking system like the one currently freezing some $200B of Russian assets? Yeah I think the EU already has one of those.
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
We’re talking about a UI interface here. How exactly would you ask Apple to “license its technology” there? Apple needs tell people how to trigger that interface, and Apple needs to support 3rd parties trigging that interface. Apple could “
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Are you trying suggest that Apple’s margins are so small that they need state protection? Or that Apple can’t compete if they’re not able to tightly lock down every aspect of their ecosystem?
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
That’s a rather silly view to take. We have a phenomenon called “the first mover advantage” for a reason. Plenty of other markets and businesses operate just fine while operating in an environment that makes protecting individual innovation
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> ALL OF THE LEGALLY SANCTIONED GOVERNMENT MONOPOLIES HERE. This is the kinda claim that really needs citations, and ideally some commentary on how the examples demonstrate the point you’re trying to make. Otherwise it’s impossible to re
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> You can have a reasonable requirement where Apple should not be able to block other companies from providing similar services based on an iphone. This is what the requirement is. The EU isn’t demanding that Apple provide the same exper
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
There’s a big difference between a change which modifies the languages API, and one that just modifies the implementation of the API. Given GoLangs compatibility guarantee, any mistake in the design of a language API has to be preserved for
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> Building a wall and shooting on site anyone who crosses it is a very simple and effective method of keeping immigration in check. Ah yes a wall, like that famously effective one that Trump built. Tell me has US managed to actually fini
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> One thing I find interesting about Western governments is that they're very similar to the Indian governments that I am familiar with. That’s probably because both the US and Indian systems of government and state bureaucracies bo
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
That’s an over simplified view of the world that completely ignores all the benefits of outsourcing our manufacturing to China brought. It may have been short sighted of us, and we may have over valued those short term benefits, over the lo
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> Sure there are initial product R&D cost overheads I think this, plus different attitudes to intellectual property are the two big reasons western companies can’t compete. The general strategy for R&D in the west is to spend sig
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
A capitalist system is built on the idea that holders of capital actually deploy that capital, rather than horde it. If capital holders don’t actually deploy that capital and compete with each other, then you don’t have a capitalist syste
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
There are solutions to this. Look at how state ID on iOS is handled. There’s an enrolment process where your identity is bound to your phone, and secured using biometrics. When you need to prove age, the device can produce a signed token at
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
You’re making the assumption that inherently support the creation of Digital ID. I’ve not expressed support for it, I’m just highlighting that if someone is going to criticise it, they should at least understand it well enough to make usefu
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> On a related note, they built their digital ID so that third parties could verify attributes Isn’t that the entire point of government ID of any variety? The only reason anyone ever asks to see ID is so they can use it verify attribute
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by avianlyric 11mo ago
Personal favourite is from the Gemini shutdown article which has a small quote from the fictional Google announcement: > "We are incredibly proud of what Gemini achieved. However, to better serve our users, we are pivoting to a new
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by avianlyric 11mo ago
I don’t think anyone can seriously hold up the PC gaming platform as a paragon of “supported configurations”. The stupid number of tiny things that can cause a PC game to fail on a supposedly “supported configuration” is beyond ludicrous. T
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by avianlyric 11mo ago
But why would Valve do that, Steam is a game market place, that happens to provide a really powerful comparability layer to allow you to run many windows games on not windows. It’s not a platform in any meaningful sense. The Steam deck is a
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by avianlyric 11mo ago
What has that got to do with Valve providing a compatibility layer so devs can broadly ignore all that nonsense and just target Proton?
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by avianlyric 11mo ago
It’s not even close. Samsung alone ships around 400 million phones a year, that’s 400 million ARM devices a year from a single manufacturer. The number of total consumer ARM devices sold each year is in the billions. RISC-V total total es
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by avianlyric 1y ago
Not quite the conclusions of the article. As it points out the UK nationalised its shipbuilding industry in the 70s in a last ditch effort to turn it around, and despite operating it at a significant loss for a decade failed to make it ev
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by avianlyric 1y ago
This is hardly a new problem that only appears in the cloud. Any bank that offers a private secure storage facility I.e. a safety deposit box, or anyone that offers a PO Box service is also exposed to the same risk. But both of these servic

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